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pusher_robot
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1mo ago
The gravity of the incident was not about the twitter comments but the media coverage, which was both defamatory and inflamatory.
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1mo ago
I disagree, it's simply looking at the tradeoffs of enforcement within certain contexts. If the harm of enforcement within a certain context would be greater than the benefits, that doesn't invalidate enforcement everywhere.
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1mo ago
Yes - there is supermajority support essentially everywhere for curtailing abuse of the humanitarian and family-based routes to immigrate to first-world countries, based on the accurate belief that the people who get in that way are, on average, bad neighbours. We should do so.
And yet, it doesn't happen. Curious!
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1mo ago
They could win me over by actually delivering the public works improvements they campaign on and use to justify tax increases. When they can't or won't, the choice between simply not getting the improvements and getting taxed a bunch of money and still not getting improvements seems obvious. If Democrats in California had actually delivered a well-performing high-speed railroad by now, on time and on budget, I would probably be pretty stoked about voting for that on a national level. But they failed, and in a way that made it seem like they didn't even care whether they succeeded or not.
Refusing to follow court orders to desegregate a school or stop administering poll tests was also a civil issue. Failing to show up for Court is a civil matter.
At the end of the day, the relevant issue is not the category of violation but its social importance. It is not necessary or desirable to criminally charge most immigration violators. It is more than sufficient to support them. But it is necessary and important that this enforcement occur. We got to this point by permitting far too little enforcement of the law. Imagine a society where it was rare to arrest people for failure to appear. Consider how little respect for the courts there world be and how this might affect the orderly administration of society.
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1mo ago
It's not a circle beard, because you keep the sideburns (but trimmed, to keep the cheeks clean shaven). It's closer I think to a normal full beard, but with clean cheeks, shorter length, and shaving the left and right spots under the mouth but leaving the middle to create an "anchor" shape.
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1mo ago
"Safety razor" is the double-sided type that Harry's uses. The other stuff is just cartridge razors. I got a Merkur safety razor a while back after getting fed up with the cartridge ripoff pricing and inherited a couple of vintage Gillette butterfly safety razors from my grandfather. I use the Derby blades which are cheap and good. Shortly after I switched to the Commander Riker beard with shaved cheeks and sides below mouth. I then got a Weller trimmer to keep the length at about half to 3/4 inch.
I don't use soap, and have found that just soaking my face in hot water for 30 seconds provides a good shave with minimal irritation.
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1mo ago
It's way more than half. I think they only recently had the first one that wasn't.
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1mo ago
I recently picked up a Longer Ray5 5-watt laser engraver for $170 on an Amazon special on a lark. It required a bit of assembly but was fairly straightforward. So far I am impressed with its capability. It has a large, roughly 2x2 ft work area. Using Inkscape and the free LaserGRBL program, I have been able to generate a variety of engraving and cutting patterns. I have successfully engraved wood, stone, painted metal, and successfully cut cardstock and thin pieces of wood. It doesn't really make a dent in any polished metal and I have yet to test many plastics, although it should be able to cut 3mm cast acrylic. The best thing I've made so far is an A4-sized cardstock stencil of the Paris Metropolitain logo. I also haven't tried engraving any grayscale images, though it should be possible with paper and certain types of wood. One thing I hope to be able to use it for is to make my own serial tags or controls panel layouts, by engraving a black painted metal blank and then rubbing in white paint.
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1mo ago
You should be able to get Dell or HP micro-desktops off a five-year lifecycle pretty cheaply at this point, which is more than sufficient for running Debian + Home Assistant. Upgrade the RAM to 32 GB and Proxmox might even be practical. Or, get a laptop with a broken screen or keyboard. You should be able to find one for very cheap or free, you can configure it with peripherals attached to work around broken bits, and then it has its own built-in UPS.
I agree with pigeon this seems like overkill for this particular application, but this is the kind of project that can start to snowball, particularly if you are going to need Internet access anyways to trigger the preheat cycle. If so, the latter option might be better to dip your toes in. You can always set up a Wireguard tunnel to Home Assistant running someplace more convenient in that case.
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1mo ago
It seems to me that occasional (over years or decades) medical expenses between the ages of 21 and 60 is a pretty realistic projection. In which case, why not have the money somewhere where it can both generate wealth and be spent tax-free?
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2mo ago
Same origin as the word "prince" for first son, I would assume.
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2mo ago
You can pay your medical expenses tax free out of the hsa but not the Roth.
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2mo ago
Yes! I wish he had more influence on his party.
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2mo ago
That would be unconstitutional. Local police can't be used for feral law enforcement.
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2mo ago
I can understand why leftists would make that distinction, but Democrats largely disclaim that kind of far left ideology, so they should be able to say that. I suppose their unwillingness to do so could be taken as implicit support of the leftist interpretation, but it could also be cowardice or just ineptitude.
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2mo ago
Instead, I want to ask y’all what “the left” should be doing. What constitutes a “serious attempt to resolve” this situation? Does it involve public disavowals by the leadership?
I think it would need public disavowals not only of the use of violence, but all threatening and dehumanizing language towards law enforcement officers. I would like a prominent Democratic leader to say something like, "We do not agree with the enforcement policy being executed by the administration, and are working to change that policy. But ICE agents are normal, decent people, federal employees doing an important and difficult job. You are not required to assist them, but please do not interfere with their duties."
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2mo ago
I don't think this is true. I think most humans are generally unwilling to murder, either out of instinct, moral training, or fear of consequences. Finding someone both willing and able to murder your opposition is, I'd guess, rare.
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2mo ago
Many argue that true virtue is altruistic, which only occurs when the result of your action is bad for you personally.
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2mo ago
I think the logical suggestion would be to enforce the law, accepting that racial disparities in enforcement may be unavoidable.
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2mo ago
Al Sharpton died last year.Should be easy to dig up commentary.
I'm wrong, that was his father.
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2mo ago
It's a bad example because the right had nothing to do with his death at all. His death was ironically viewed precisely because the right's preferred policies might actually have saved him.
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2mo ago
Hiking in the woods. Drinking beer outside.
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2mo ago
Had the Irish all thought the same way there would be no Irish left.
What do you mean? The mass Emigration seems to have worked out very well for them in the long run.
That just completely cedes the media ground to opposition agitprop.
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